Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-19
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
JESSIE BAkriETT DAVIS ILL In NEW YpRK-rB
TROUBLE AMONG THE BOSTON IDEALS

JESSIE BAKnETr DAVIS ILL IN NEW YoRK-rHE
TROUBLE AMONG THE BOSTON IDEALS
Since the engagement OF the National ouers
company In this city It has been perststently re-
ported that Mrs Jessie Bartlett Davis had left that
organization. It is certain that Mrs Davis lett
washington suddenly In the middle OF the opera
week ana did not return to appear In '.Lakme' on
SATURDAY, though her name was on the bill IL is
now said That she is Ill In New York and has tenn
porarilT given up work. Mrs. Davis has many
n1ends mere VINO VIII wish her speedy recovery.
- Fred Wardes engagement In ST. Louis last
week was decided popular and financial success
II Edwin Booths three nights in Louisville last
week produced over s.. 600. It is said the takipgs
Tor Hamlet" were the largest for any one night
OF Booths present season
II. b. Gilmour, after very brief experience as
Leading man, has left Rose Coghlan,s company. Al
Lipman is now Miss Coghlan's chief support.
-DOyy Carte's Opera company, which is Il
give Gilbert and SulIvan's new opera I'm New
YORK, Is expected to arrive there Tomorrow and
the frst performance OF 'tRuddigore" in this coun
ter on Tuesday evening"
Lawrence BarrettS stRienzin went with a rush
in Chicago Monday night. The tragedian was called
out hve times after the final fall Of the curtain.
The latest Partisan curiosity is Benedetto Vim
cenzo, big italian singer. Bene is large man
but has regular soprano voice-as high as star
light and as thin.
Charles Barron, the excellent Boston actor
who Is this season Edwin Booths chief support
VIII, it Is said, be leading man in the Booth
Barrett company next year.
London gossip says that Sardou will write
play for Mary Anderson.
An ingenious Philadelphian proposes thai
managers seat all the ladies together on one sid,
OF the parQuet until hats OF reasonable size ar,
worn at performances.
Col. MapleSon has again come to grief with
his operate venture In England, and Helen,
HaStreiter has quit him because he did not pay
her salary. She has gone to Rome to wake thu
echoes OF the eternal city with that magnificent
contraltO OF hers.
y Billie Barlow, long the prettiest girl amons
the many pretty girls at the New York Casino, 1.
now 10 London. where she recently successfully
appeared as Monte Crsto Junior at the Gaiety
1aklng Nellie Farren's place temporarily.
Dispatches from Boston the past week indi
cate that the final breaking up of the Ideal Opers
troupe, foreshadowed in TIE STAR long ago, 1!
very near at hand. The discomfort with Manager
Fosters methods Is said to have grown since Mis-
Agnes Huntington left the company All the Ole
members WILL 1t Is reported, withdraw at the clos
OF the present season. and next year start out as
new organization, leaving Manager Foster alon,
with Mile. De Lussan, whom, IL is charged, he ha.
pers1Stently "boOmed' at the expense OF other ar
lists. This seems to be another melancholy ex
ample OF the danger OF mixing affection and bust
ness. MOraWSkf, the baSSO, and LawtOn, the tenor
have already left the Ideals, and Tom Karl is thu
that Mr.. Frank Baxter, OF this city, is to Join a
once. Notwithstanding the unhappy divisions II
the company, the recent engagement In Boston
was highly successful